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LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 193

(a) The Commission shall, before denying an
application for license, or before suspending or revoking
any license, or imposing any penalty set the matter down for
a hearing before the Commission or a real estate hearing
board, and at least ten days prior to the date set for the
hearing, it shall notify in writing the applicant, or
license holder of the charges made, and shall afford said
applicant, or license holder an opportunity to be heard in
person or by counsel in reference thereto. Provided,
however, that in cases involving revocation of the license
of a nonresident of this State licensed under this subtitle
by the real estate commission of the state or district in
which such nonresident licensee is a resident, or where
there is a conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction
of any licensee under this subtitle of any act which
constitutes a violation of this subtitle and the order of
such Commission or court of competent jurisdiction is
certified to the Commission, any real estate license may be
revoked by the Commission without any hearing whatsoever.
Such written notice may be served by delivery of same
personally to the applicant, or license holder, or by
mailing same by registered mail to the last known business
address of such applicant, or license holder. If said
applicant, or license holder, be a salesman, the Commission
shall also notify the broker named in the salesman's
application or license by mailing notice by registered mail
to the broker's last known business address. The hearing on
such charges shall be at such time and place as the
Commission shall prescribe. Any member of the Commission,
its [secretary-treasurer] EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OR ASSISTANT
DIRECTOR, or A member of a real estate hearing board shall
have power to administer oaths and to subpoena and bring
before it any person in the State, or take testimony of any
such person by deposition with the same fees and mileage in
the same manner as prescribed by law in judicial procedure
in courts of this State in civil cases. Any party to any
hearing before the Commission or a real estate hearing board
shall have the right to the attendance of witnesses, in his
behalf at such hearing, upon making request therefor to the
Commission or a real estate hearing board and designating
the person or persons sought to be subpoenaed.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act
shall take effect July 1, 1978.

Approved May 2, 1978.

CHAPTER 194
(Senate Bill 114)
AN ACT concerning